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<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212; As Wilkes-Barre Area School District officials consider where to locate a new high school after the zoning board this week nixed Coughlin as the preferred site, the city offered to help.</p><p>Mayor Tony George confirmed there was a meeting Friday in an effort to keep the school in the city. Among those attending were Superintendent Brian Costello and builder John Panzitta, he said.</p><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want them to leave,&#8221; George said.</p><p>They discussed what the city could do and where else the school could be located within city limitsin the city. A possible site is the former Murray Complex along South Pennsylvania Avenue, he said.</p><p>The district plans to consolidate Coughlin and Meyers high schools. It identified the downtown Coughlin property on North Washington Street as the best site for a new facility for up to 1,800 students from grades nine through 12.</p><p>A component of the plan, involving Panzitta&#8217;s firm, Coughlin on Main LLC, was to convert the Times Leader building on North Main Street into classrooms that would be used while Coughlin was demolished and the new school built. The Times Leader would move its offices to its production facility on North Pennsylvania Avenue.</p><p>But the city&#8217;s Zoning Hearing Board on Wednesday upended the plans for the new school, approving the Times Leader conversion but denying the district&#8217;s zoning requests that would have allowed construction at the Coughlin site.</p><p>The district has 30 days from the denial to appeal the zoning board&#8217;s decision.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">This architect&#8217;s rendering shows the proposed Wilkes-Barre Area consolidated high school on the existing Coughlin High School site. The Wilkes-Barre Zoning board on Wednesday rejected plans to build a new school there. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/web1_Proposed-Coughlin-building-Exterior-Aerial-View.jpg</photo0><caption0>This architect&#8217;s rendering shows the proposed Wilkes-Barre Area consolidated high school on the existing Coughlin High School site. The Wilkes-Barre Zoning board on Wednesday rejected plans to build a new school there. </caption0><photoCredit0>Courtesy photo </photoCredit0></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/web1_TTL060716coughlin2.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">The school district previously identified the downtown Coughlin property on North Washington Street as the best site for a new facility for up to 1,800 students from grades nine through 12. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo1>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/web1_TTL060716coughlin2.jpg</photo1><caption1>The school district previously identified the downtown Coughlin property on North Washington Street as the best site for a new facility for up to 1,800 students from grades nine through 12. </caption1><photoCredit1>Aimee Dilger | Times Leader </photoCredit1></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Jerry Lynott</p><p>jlynott@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Jerry Lynott at 570-991-6120 or on Twitter @TLJerryLynott.</p></shirttailMeta></div>

Wilkes-Barre Mayor Tony George offers help to keep new high school in city